Long Tenor Poems
Long Tenor Poems. Below are the most popular long Tenor by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Tenor poems by poem length and keyword.
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
tenor, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
What Kind of People Are WeWhat Kind of People Are We
In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...
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Categories:
tenor, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form:
Narrative
Beloved Universal CommunityMy fetal alcoholic bipolar:
“sometimes I experience low anxiety
and act like a happy drunk”
“sometimes,
like when entering new places
and situations,
I experience high anxiety
and act like a very bad
and mean-spirited drunk
with immense juvenile curiosity and overload,
near total...
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Categories:
tenor, community, culture, discrimination, earth, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Force For Gooda force for good
(for john coltrane and ahmed obafemi
based on ‘trane’s treatment of ‘nature boy’)
“…I wanna be a force for good…”
-John Coltrane
…there was a man…
a very brave, enchanted man…
and he spoke of many things…
peace...
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Categories:
tenor, appreciation, dedication, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn.
They heeded not the cries of pain,
Nor...
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Categories:
tenor, christmas, friendship, hope, love, peace, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Unbridgeable ChasmContrary to what a dream might wish for,
There are those, sometimes, who fail to see across
That unbridgeable chasm, the one that leaves the heart
Yearning for the light, the glistening of stars shining,
The whisper of a...
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Categories:
tenor, blessing, christian, faith, forgiveness, inspirational, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
The Train With WingsThe train sits on the track covered in a splendid frock; the seats are adorned with golden sashes and a sweet aroma splashed all over the passage, it’s getting ready to go on...
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Categories:
tenor, addiction, america, art, beauty, best friend, business,
Form:
Free verse
The World of CommunicationWhen the first humans walked the earth,
They all huddled in droves,
Hooted and cried to warn of dangers,
Lurking in the mangrove,
Loud voices and echoes, conveyed a return,
Along with a large kill,
A lone unreached tenor, to a...
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Categories:
tenor, analogy, appreciation, computer, hero, imagery, science, technology,
Form:
Ballad
Armed With WineI swing into action
Armed with wine
The spirit willing, really for anything
Watch the Drama
Fire in my eye, dry throat, cracking lip
I stammer a little, with Socratic confidence
I am stinking of words, ammunition from hell
Most...
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Categories:
tenor, addiction, political, , ozymandias,
Form:
Blank verse
What HappenedWhen do we stop believing that we could become anything?
Remember the time in third grade when Mrs. Anderson asked us what we wanted to be when we had grown up?
How Susie said she wanted to...
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Categories:
tenor,
Form:
Free verse
Deep Speak To DeepI stand on top of the big board chair looking at you muttering something privately to yourself over there.
I couldn’t figure out what you were saying, I could only read the message on your...
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Categories:
tenor, confidence, conflict, confusion, courage, farewell, feelings, gender,
Form:
Narrative
Love In the WindAs I travelled down I395 I saw cars lined up with harzard lights flashing.
I knew it was a procession of some sort
As I went past all the cars in tow
I saw most men in black...
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Categories:
tenor, black african american, cry, love, mother, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Ardor At WorkLooking at the mirror
with good day’s pleasure
I see slothfulness’ glamor
taunting with delight’s leisure
Yet ready to attack sense of honor
defying time-worth’s treasure
So defiant; not a generous donor
offering gift that costs much pressure!
I challenge...
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Categories:
tenor, christian, dedication, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, work,
Form:
Personification
Battle Against SlothfulnessLooking at the mirror with good day’s pleasure
I see slothfulness’ glamour gripping me with delight’s leisure
Yet ready to attack my sense of honor for me to defy time-worth’s treasure
So defiant; not a generous donor offering...
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Categories:
tenor, character, courage, devotion, faith, god, inspirational, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
In The BeginningI came from a generation of laughter,
while night faded the flames
freeing the moon from its silence,
flowing with dreams, dewlike
hopes, singing in tenor, voices rising
from the ashes of a moment
before hearts felt the rhythmic trembling,
bleeding...
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Categories:
tenor, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, hope, inspirational love,
Form:
Free verse
My Shepherd Lord*Image of The Lord is My Shepherd by Our Daily Bread
My Shepherd Lord
*Line 1, 3x repeat scales; Larghetto/Largo 60 tempo. ...
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Categories:
tenor, jesus, song,
Form:
Lyric
Wordscape Triptych 1WordScape Triptych #1
Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did;
With all the rest of us just watching and wondering what you were going to say;
Tell us...
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Categories:
tenor, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
What More Than Thisye that loveth might she love me
...
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Categories:
tenor, culture, desire, friendship, music, repetition, sound,
Form:
Ballad
An Excuse To Be a WhoreKantar ! who speaks this.....
make the people envy: so their
loyalties will be divided
and they will faultier in the
...
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Categories:
tenor, adventure, analogy, appreciation, break up, confidence, conflict,
Form:
Ballad
Musical ArrangementI am writing a song with a familiar rhythm busting in my vein .I am writing a song with a familiar rhythm planted in the violin strings, and the base line is running thousand miles...
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Categories:
tenor, america, business, confidence, courage, creation, culture, education,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes - Liv: Swatting Flies In Buckingham Palace From the White HouseUNQUOTABLE QUOTES - LIV : Swatting flies in Buckingham Palace from the White House
When Bianca Nobilissima, the statuesque Sea Anne-Anne anchor in her Star-Trek heat-wave get-up exposing her sculptured architectural buoy spaces from head to...
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Categories:
tenor, humor, irony, satire, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ode To MetaphorsHere’s a twain of siblings so delicate—
The tenor and its weary vehicle,
Similar are, nor yet so disparate
O lady, art not thou so fickle?
In seeming sameness struts lady contrast,
Harmony jars to sing in unsure...
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Categories:
tenor, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Ode
Giovanna: the Lovely Prima DonnaI often visited the prittiest and kindest lady,
who lived by an abandoned, weedy cemetery...
and she told me tales that made me dream;
up that pine-scented and rugged hill, the Devil tripped many times and finally fell:
when...
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Categories:
tenor, childhood, death, devotion, music, nostalgia, passion, seasons,
Form:
Ottava rima
Suttle-Teasesevery day a betterone
improving on those days gone by
some might ask you why
tell it cause you love me
tell them it's cause you care
tell them aint nothing like being loved
and aint nothing like me and you
she...
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Categories:
tenor, beautiful, blessing, leadership, music, nature, passion, sound,
Form:
Lyric
My Christmas SongI have searched hard and long to find a Christmas song, I have searched in the depth of the sea to find a rhythm that was compatible with thee.
I know your taste and the...
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Categories:
tenor, appreciation, business, celebration, change, creation, education, encouraging,
Form:
Narrative